111 research outputs found
Is the euro advantageous? Does it foster European feelings? Europeans on the euro after five years
No full textThe introduction of the euro as a currency in physical existence in January 2002 was a major step in the European integration process. The purpose of this paper is to explore how a representative selection of 12 000 Europeans across all countries in the euro area view the effects of the euro five years after its introduction. The empirical analysis uses multinomial logistic regressions to explore the responses to two questions from the Flash Eurobarometer survey conducted in September 2006. The first question asked if the adoption of the euro was advantageous overall or not. The second one asked if using the euro had made you personally feel a little more European than before or not.Jonung, Conflitti, 978-92-79-08238-2, European integration, euro, EU, public attitudes, opinion polls, multinomial logistic regression.
Valuing Fuelwood Resources Using a Site Choice Model of Fuelwood Collection
No full textResource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Health in Rural Tanzania: The Determinants of Health Status, Health Care Demand and Health Care Choice
No full textIn Tanzania, health statistics have shown slow improvement, although spending on health services in Tanzania is quite high. Defining the determinants of both health status and health use is interesting to point out possibilities for policy. Using household data of the rural Tanzanian mainland, one indicator of health status, the incidence of illness, is examined here and three health demand variables, the incidence of treatment, the level and the provider of treatment. For health outcome as well as health demand, the importance of household income in Tanzania is striking. A positive cross-effect of education on health could not be identified, except for rich Tanzanians. Distance to the nearest health facility does not matter for the poorest patients. Although the measurement of quality is problematic, the quality of the lower level medical care is found to have a positive impact on health status and on health demand, more specifically the nonwage component of quality. These results indicate that the introduction of cost recovery schemes in the Tanzanian health system may have perverse effects, if not combined with a price differentiation according to income and an improvement of quality of health facilities.
Changing family in comparative perspective : Asia and the United States
No full textFor more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Contents: Family formation in Japan, South Korea, and the United States: an overview / Shunichi Inoue -- Changing marriage patterns in South Korea / Minja Kim Choe -- Changing significance of marriage in the United States / Larry L. Bumpass -- Time allocation between employment and housework in Japan, South Korea, and the United States / Noriko O. Tsuya, Larry L. Bumpass -- Wives' economic decision-making power in the family: five Asian countries / Karen Oppenheim Mason -- Dealing with a double day: role strain among married working women in Japan and South Korea / Tim Futing Liao --Husbands' drinking and spouses' well-being in Japan and South Korea / Eise Yokoyama, Noriko O. Tsuya -- Intergenerational relations in South Korea / Moon-Sik Hong, Yong-Chan Byun -- Intergenerational contact in the United States and Japan / Ronald R. Rindfuss, R. Kelly Raley -- Family and intergenerational income transfers in Taiwan / Andrew Mason, Tim Miller -- Family processes and their implications for families in the future / Larry L. Bumpass, Karen Oppenheim Mason -- Appendix: summary of main project surveys
Job search behavior of unemployed in Russia
No full textThis paper explores the determinants of job search behavior, search intensity and choices of search methods of the unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to estimate the effects of socio- economic factors on the choices workers make while looking for a job. The results show that women are significantly less likely than men to engage in job searches, lag significantly behind men in search intensity, and significantly differ from men in their search strategies. The job search behavior of workers living in metropolitan areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg differs substantially from the behavior of workers living elsewhere in Russia. The most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads.Russia, Transition, Job Search, Search Intensity, logit
Histamine Recycling Is Mediated by CarT, a Carcinine Transporter in Drosophila Photoreceptors.
No full textHistamine is an important chemical messenger that regulates multiple physiological processes in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Even so, how glial cells and neurons recycle histamine remains to be elucidated. Drosophila photoreceptor neurons use histamine as a neurotransmitter, and the released histamine is recycled through neighboring glia, where it is conjugated to β-alanine to form carcinine. However, how carcinine is then returned to the photoreceptor remains unclear. In an mRNA-seq screen for photoreceptor cell-enriched transporters, we identified CG9317, an SLC22 transporter family protein, and named it CarT (Carcinine Transporter). S2 cells that express CarT are able to take up carcinine in vitro. In the compound eye, CarT is exclusively localized to photoreceptor terminals. Null mutations of cart alter the content of histamine and its metabolites. Moreover, null cart mutants are defective in photoreceptor synaptic transmission and lack phototaxis. These findings reveal that CarT is required for histamine recycling at histaminergic photoreceptors and provide evidence for a CarT-dependent neurotransmitter trafficking pathway between glial cells and photoreceptor terminals
Researching poverty to make a difference: The need for reciprocity and advocacy in community research
No full textGrowth in poverty throughout the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] hurts people. The Auckland City Mission Family100 project explores the everyday lives, frustrations and dilemmas faced by 100 families living in poverty in Auckland. This article reflects on poverty in New Zealand, associated welfare ‘reforms’, the consequences of recent change in exacerbating hardship, and our own efforts to advocate for the rights of beneficiaries. Specific attention is given to a workshop run by the research team with the judiciary, and what such activities foreground in terms of the relational nature of research, reciprocity and advocacy
Alkaline hydrolysis of ethylene phosphate: An ab initio study by supermolecule model and polarizable continuum approach
No full textLight-extraction enhancement of freestanding GaN-based flip-chip light-emitting diodes using two-step roughening methods
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